Special Offer and New Conditions of use for Maxus Helpdesk in 2016
During 2016 we have a special offer to customers on current software maintenance:
4 free 15 minutes call credits equivalent to the value of 1 hour or $165, to use any time from now to the end of 2016. These credits are in addition to the free support for software issues covered by your annual maintenance. You can use these credits to obtain quick answers to consulting queries (up to 15 minutes each), or you can add them together for one longer session. (If on site attendance is required, travel costs may be charged.)
All helpdesk calls are free to those on current maintenance. Read More →
After the opportunity for some networking amongst the approximately 30 or more attendees, the group was treated to a jam-packed program from a range of speakers.
Judith Dwyer, Secretary of the Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria opened proceedings. The Mechanics’ Institutes Resource Centre (MIRC) collection includes photographs, building plans, correspondence, and digital files of primary documents such as minutes, correspondence and annual and financial reports. The “Big Mech” database of entries for over 1,000 mechanics’ institutes in Victoria is now searchable on DB/TextWorks.
Don Barker from the Australian Railway Historical Society (Vic.).spoke about their experience moving from a warehouse to the new premises ….? The Australian Railway Historical Society’s collection comprises books, Australian railway journals and a selection of US and UK journals. It is still to be fully catalogued.
Mike Trickett from Cinema & Theatre Historical Society of Australia (CATHS) discussed and demonstrated their database of past and present cinema and theatre venues in Australia that is available online as well as databases of personalities who worked in the industry, and architects who designed the cinemas.
Pam Millist from Maxus presented on some of the exciting developments in the latest verions (v15) of DB/TextWorks including new Rich Text field type, email enhancements, etc.
Jodie Boyd from RHSV discussed developments at RHSV and services for local historical societies including the revamp of the Victorian Local History Database.
The first meeting for the year of the Melbourne Inmagic User Group will be held at The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on Tuesday 21 April 2015. The Cunningham Library provides an information service for ACER staff, Library members & ACER Institute students, as well as producing a number of databases such as the Australian Education Index / A+ Education, The Australasian Education Directory, BOLDE, IDP Database of Research in International Education, Learning Ground, EdResearch Online & The Education Research Theses database.
Implementing a Knowledge Management (KM) solution can be tricky.A well architected and implemented KM system will inform, educate and delight your end users, while a poorly implemented KM system can create more problems than it solves.
Many organizations leap into a KM system without first considering common pitfalls and critical success factors. Lucidea has implemented thousands of successful KM systems, including solutions for NASA, Owens Corning, Kemin Industries, Gulfstream, Toyota and many other industry leading organizations around the world.
The recording of this interactive session is your chance to learn about best practices and common mistakes, so that you increase your ability to successfully implement a KM system. In this webinar these six critical KM questions were answered:
If you missed Inmagic’s January webinar you can still see a special preview of the newest release in the Inmagic Genie family: GeniePlus, with capabilities including:
Comprehensive serials control with e-resource management
Integrated acquisitions with cost tracking and budgetary control
True authority control with full thesauri capabilities
Flexible and powerful UI for expansive system configuration
On the fly reporting to Excel and PDF – system wide
A Unicode foundation for multilingual access
And new optional capabilities for multi-branch support
In a recent article published on the Image and Data Manager web site, Dan Termale, an executive with Konica Minolta Business Solutions, discussed 4 misconceptions about Information Management:
Information governance is IT’s responsibility.
Without an ECM you can’t govern your information.
Employees always fight change.
Information Management solutions cost too much.
Dan says “The list of misconceptions goes on of course, but for every misconception there is usually a logical explanation. The key is education. Before you make big decisions and investments on new technologies make sure you have spent enough time planning and learning about the best practices and ways to be successful.” Read More →
Inmagic has now released version 4.4 of Presto, which again incorporates some terrific new features and fixes:
• Presto now allows you to include more than one field in a Search box, eg Author, Corporate Author, Statement of Responsibility in the “Authors” box, or Subjects, Descriptors, Abstract in a “Keywords” box
• You can show or hide the Boolean controls (AND/OR/Not) between boxes
• When a new term is added to a Value List, you can provide the option to “Update the list” as you can in TextWorks
• And more … Read More →
The next meeting of the Inmagic Museum User Group will be held at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum on 2nd December2014. The Museum collection of more than 8,000 items includes the internationally significant Dame Nellie Melba collection and objects reflecting the rich cultural heritage of the Yarra Ranges region. It is a focal point for more than 17 historical societies and heritage groups across the Shire, a gathering space, and a source of professional educational and public programs.
On 5 November 2014 Inmagic announced aspecial offer for the purchase ofPresto for DB/TextWorks andPresto for DB/TextWorks Cloud valid until31 December 2014. View Inmagic’sThe Magic Continues! webinar for information and a live demonstration, or explore the links in this post.